Collecting Sunflower Seeds Autumn 2020

We had a few massive sunflowers this year and I was looking forward to collect their seeds. That time had finally arrrived and I'm so happy that we ended up with so many seeds.

The initial harvest:

I checked a few other spots and got more dried sunflower. So we ended up with this lot:

With this amount of sunflower heads, I have to get my little helper:

A dinner plate full of sunflower seeds.

No Rice, Dig Up Potatoes!!

This is what happened when your rice stock is low and you can't buy more because people are panic buying. We went to a few stores and can't find stock, so I returned home and started digging up the garden bed to forage for random potatoes remaiing from 2 years ago. 

Note to self - buy seed potatoes this year. It will be awesome to not rely on stores.

Sunflower Seeds Harvest and Cuttings

Some of the early planted sunflowers are ready for harvest and I had some spare time this evening to check and collect them. These flowers had brought joy to myself and also passer-bys as I noticed quite a few people stopped to observe and admire the flowers when they walked pass. It's really awesome to see others enjoying these flowers as much as I do. 

I took a few cuttings of the Bay tree, Lavender and Chrysanthemum as well:

These sunflowers are the ones planted at the backyard, so, not visible to passer-bys. They are still at the peak of their flowering period:

Managed to catch the dramatic ray of evening sun there. 

One solitary bee is still very busy working collecting nectar from dahlia bloom:

Bay tree cuttings:

They have since been trimmed down and the leaves are drying to be used in cooking.

The Lavender and Chrysanthemum cuttings: